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GEORGE EDICK, 0F ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

Application filed May 4, 1911. Serial No. 624,916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn Enron, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo and State of New Mexico, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail- Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail joints, and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide a strong, durable and eliicient means for securing the meeting ends of railway rails together without the use of fish plates and the ordinary bolts which extend through the fish plates and through the webs of the rails.

Another object of the invention is to provide a combined chair and support for the meeting ends of railway rails which is of a comparatively simple construction, which is strong, cheap, which may be readily positioned for the reception of the rails without the employment of jacks or analogous devices, and which when so positioned will eifectively sustain the rails at their points of juncture against lateral movement and which will entirely prevent the pounding of the rails at their points of juncture incident to the rolling stock passing thereover, thus materially adding to the life of the rails, as well as to the comfort of the traveling public.

With the above objects in view, and others which will be apparent as the nature of the description progresses, the invention resides in the novel construction and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings accompanying this specification, there has been illustrated a simple and preferred embodiment of the improvement, and in which drawings,-

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a pair of rails connected by my, improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional view upon the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view upon the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. l is a perspective view of the rail chair.

In the drawings, the numerals 1 and 1 designate the meeting ends of a pair of railway rails. The support and securing device for the rails comprises a pair of members consisting of a chair 2 and a removable angle bar or wedge plate 3. The chair 2 comprises essentially a based which is horizontally straight and which has one of its longitudinal ends integrally formed with The angular member 5 is further of reinforcing brackets 6, the same being integrally formed with the said members 5 and 6. The outer edge of the chair at its juncture with the angular overlying memher 5 is provided with a plurality of notches 8, the latter adapted to receive spikes whereby this side of the chair is connected with the ties of the road bed. The longitudinal edge of the base 4 opposite that formed with the integral angular overlying memher 5 and its extension 6 is formed with a bead or enlargement 9, the inner wall of which being vertically straight and the said bead or enlargement extends the entire length of the base. The side of the plate formed with the bead 9 is inclined or, in

other words, the plate is of a'greater width at one of its ends than at its opposite end. The ends of the base plate adjacent thebead 9 are formed with spike receiving notches 10, and the base of the chair adjacent the bead 9 is further provided with an opening 11, the same being arranged approximately centrally of the said base.

Integrally formed upon the base L of the chair and arranged in a line parallel with the bead 9 is a plurality of studs 12. These studs are positioned adjacent the bead 9 and each of the said studs has its head provided with'an inturned rib 13. The studs 12 are substantially rectangular in cross section and the ribs thereof project in a direction toward the portion of the base formed with the angular overlying portion 5 and its vertical extension 6.

The removable angle bar or wedge plate 3 comprises a member having a horizontally straight base portion 14 which is integrally formed with an angular portion 15 having its extremity provided with an integrally formed vertically arranged horizontally eX- tending flange 16-. The flange 16 is adapted to contact with the webs of the rails and to have its upper edge underlie and contact with the balls of the rails upon its side of the joint. The upper face of the base, the

angular portion 15, and the flange 16 are all formed with a plurality of reinforcing ribs 17 and the longitudinal edge of the horizontally straight base 14 is arranged at an in-- clination to the longitudinally extending vertical flange 16, so that the edges of the said base will register with the inclined bead 9 of the chair 2 and at the same time allow its'angular portion 15, as well as its flange 16 to snugly engage with the rails. The wedge plate 3 is provided with a plurality of substantially L-shaped slots, the same 1 equaling in number the studs 12 provided upon the base l of the chair 2. The wedge 2 is also. provided with a plurality of openings 18' and these openings are adapted to register with. the notch 10, as well as with the central opening 11 provided upon the base 4 of the chair 2. Studs S are formed 7 Copies of this patent may beobtained for vided by their L-shaped slots will overlie the Y studs 1 2.v The plate is then allowed to rest upon the bead of the chair, and is forced inwardly until the longitudinally extending portions of the L-shaped slots are in a line with the studs below the lips thereof. The wedge is then forcediin one direction so that itsinclined edge is tightly wedged against E the inclined bead 9. of the base 4 of the chair. When the wedge is thus forced home, spikes V are inserted through the openings of the wedge plate and the chair, thus securely and effectively sustaining the wedge plate upon the chair, and the rails in a locked position between the wedge plate and chair.

Having thus fully described the said invention, what I claimis:

A rail joint comprising a base plate, an angle bar formed integrally with the said base plate, a series of studs provided with overhanging lips and arranged in the base plate in a plane inclined with relation to the longitudinal axis of the base plate, a movable angle bar provided with L-shaped slots, each of saidslots comprising a wide transverse portion and a narrow longitudinal portion, said narrow portions being arranged in a plane inclined with relationv to the longitudinal axis of the plate, the studs and narrow portions of the slots being adapted to force the movable angle bar into engagement with the rails on the movement of the movable angle bar with relation to the said base plate, means adapted to hold themovable angle bar against accidental displacement, ribs formed on, the movable angle bar adjacent the transverse portions of the L- shaped slots, and studs: formed between the stationary angle bar and base plate and adapted to engage recesses formed in the base flanges 0f, the rails. f

In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

7 V GEORGE EDICK.

Witnesses JOSEPH F. SULzsR, D. H. BOATRIGHT.

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